Agreed with Eric I didn't mean we need MOAR DUCK just that I don't like it don't like it being phased out. I think its use as "generic person outline" is great. The attention icon for example is too much, however.
-Evan On Feb 26, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Eric Richie <e...@adium.im> wrote: > As a member of the 'old guard' I have to say that I very much DISAGREE with > the overuse of the duck (and I think Evan and Colin would probably agree with > me as well although I'll not put words in their mouth). > > What I interpreted to be at issue was whether or not it was ok to use the > duck in place of a person. On this issue, I don't so much have a problem with > it. As the others said, it's part of our persona. It wasn't that EVERY icon > should contain a duck, it was just that we shouldn't remove all uses of it in > the prefs just because it wasn't a person. That said, I don't have any > objection to trying to enforce consistency, but I also don't think using the > outline of the duck is going to be confusing. > > The duck is indeed part of the personality of the app, but just like any bit > of branding, it loses all meaning if it's overused. I'm very much against the > idea of making all of these icons duck-inclusive (or even most of them). > > -Eric > > > On Feb 26, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Robert Vehse wrote: > >> I am still not a fan of every second icon in Adium involving a duck and >> having ducks represent people but it appears the old guard insists... >> >> Robbie >> >> >> Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: >> >>> Von: Bogdan Mihaiciuc <bogd...@live.com> >>> Datum: 26. Februar 2012 17:44:07 MEZ >>> An: Robert Vehse <robert.ve...@gmail.com> >>> Betreff: Re: Adium icon update >>> >>> I will use tiffs then. >>> >>> These are the first icons, except notification. >>> <Adium_1.png> >>> >>> The badged Block, Add, Unblock all look like Account preferences, sans the >>> background silhouette. >>> >>> I'm still not sure about notification, but this is what I have so far. >>> >>> <Adium_2.png> >>> >>> I still need to do the smaller sizes for most of these. >>> >>> -- Bogdan >> >> >> Am 21.02.2012 um 19:33 schrieb Colin Barrett: >> >>> I'm pretty much in agreement with Evan here -- eager to see the next round >>> of icons. >>> >>> -Colin >
